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Huangcun Area 黄村地区Huangcun Town（黄村镇）
Area & Town
Liying Station within the area, 2016
Location within Daxing District
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Coordinates: 39°44′29″N 116°20′02″E / 39.74139°N 116.33389°E / 39.74139; 116.33389
Country	China
Municipality	Beijing
District	Daxing
Village-level Divisions	11 communities 33 villages 2 industrial areas
Area
• Total	66.29 km (25.59 sq mi)
Elevation	44 m (144 ft)
Population
• Total	176,890
• Density	2,700/km (6,900/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	102600
Area code	010

Huangcun Area (simplified Chinese: 黄村地区; traditional Chinese: 黃村地區; pinyin: Huángcūn Dìqū) is an area and a town situated in the northwest corner of Daxing District, Beijing, China. Since the creation of several subdistricts in 2001 and 2009, Huangcun has remained 3 regions that are disconnected from each other. It was home to 176,890 inhabitants in the 2020 census.

During the Yuan dynasty, this region was flooded by Guyu River and formed a large desert landscape. It was named Huangcun (Chinese: 荒村; lit. 'Deserted Village') at first, and the name got corrupted to Huangcun (Chinese: 黄村; lit. 'Yellow Village') in the Qing dynasty.

History

Administrative divisions

By 2021, Huangcun Area consisted of 46 subdivisions, of those 11 were residential communities, 33 were villages and 2 were industrial areas:

Gallery

• Daxing Campus of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2022
• Daxing Xincheng Station, 2021

See also

• List of township-level divisions of Beijing

References

1. ^ 李立国; 李万钧; 吴世民, eds. (2013). 中华人民共和国政区大典, 北京市卷. Beijing: 中国社会出版社. ISBN 978-7-5087-4058-4. OCLC 910451741.
2. "北京市大兴区第七次全国人口普查公报". www.bjdx.gov.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
3. "2021年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码". www.stats.gov.cn. Retrieved 2022-10-22.

• Towns in Beijing
• Daxing District
• Areas of Beijing